our Mayor's a noddy And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease?... The Children's journal - Pagina 57Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Flora N. Kightlinger - 1892 - 468 pagina’s
...our Mayor's a noddy; And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke silence, " O for a trap, a trap, a trap ! "... | |
| Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...noddy ; And as for our Corporation — shocking, FOLK-LORE 17 To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine ' What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council ; At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine gown... | |
| David Hoekzema - 1893 - 368 pagina’s
...Mayor's a noddy; "And as for our Corporation — shocking "To think we buy gowns lined with ermine "For dolts that can't or won't determine "What's best...sirs! Give your brains a racking "To find the remedy we 're lacking, "Or, sure as fate, we 'l1 send you packing!" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked... | |
| Edward Adolf Sonnenschein - 1925 - 436 pagina’s
...used not only in simple sentences, as in the above instances, but also in subordinate clauses : They can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin. Here 'what' is an interrogative pronoun; for the clause ' what's best to rid us of our vermin ' is... | |
| Robert Browning - 1925 - 394 pagina’s
...Mayor's a noddy ; " And as for our Corporation — shocking " To think we buy gowns lined with ermine " For dolts that can't or won't determine " What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. IV An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine gown... | |
| Robert Browning - 1926 - 294 pagina’s
...Mayor's a noddy ; And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine 25 For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...ease ? Rouse up, Sirs ! Give your brains a racking 30 To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing ! ' At this the Mayor... | |
| 1899 - 540 pagina’s
...last the people in a body came to the town hall flocking. " What's best to rid us of this vermin ? Rouse up, sirs. Give your brains a racking to find the remedy we're lacking ! Else sure as fate we'll send you packing ! " Said the Mayor, " It's easy to bid one rack one's brain... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1927 - 410 pagina’s
...our Mayor's a noddy; And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing I " At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation.' A person of musical abilities... | |
| 1920 - 1002 pagina’s
...our Mayor's a noddy; And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence: " For a guilder I'd my ermine gown... | |
| Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 pagina’s
...they, 'our Mayor's a 'And as for our Corporation — shocking 'To think we buy gowns lined with ermine 'For dolts that can't or won't determine 'What's best...find in the furry civic robe ease? 'Rouse up, sirs I Give your brains a rack'To find the remedy we're lacking, ' Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!... | |
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